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Satyam Sharma
38048983e1 x86 msr driver: Misc cpuinit annotations
msr_class_cpu_callback() can be marked __cpuinit, being the notifier callback
for a __cpuinitdata notifier_block.  So can be marked msr_device_create() too,
called only from the newly-__cpuinit msr_class_cpu_callback() or from
__init-marked msr_init().

Signed-off-by: Satyam Sharma <satyam@infradead.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18 14:37:28 -07:00
Satyam Sharma
761bb43190 Redefine {un}register_hotcpu_notifier() !HOTPLUG_CPU stubs
The return of the present "do {} while" based stub definition of
register_hotcpu_notifier() cannot be checked.  This makes the stub
asymmetric w.r.t.  the real HOTPLUG_CPU=y implementation that is
int-returning.  So let us redefine this to be consistent with the full
version.  Also do the same for unregister_hotcpu_notifier().

We cannot define these as static inline functions due to an existing GCC
bug (#33172).  So define as macros that return appropriately instead (int
'0' for the register_hotcpu_notifier case and void for
unregister_hotcpu_notifier).

Signed-off-by: Satyam Sharma <satyam@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18 14:37:28 -07:00
Michael Neuling
4603ac180a powerpc: add scaled time accounting
This adds POWERPC specific hooks for scaled time accounting.

POWER6 includes a SPURR register.  The SPURR is based off the PURR register
but is scaled based on CPU frequency and issue rates.  This gives a more
accurate account of the instructions used per task.  The PURR and timebase
will be constant relative to the wall clock, irrespective of the CPU
frequency.

This implementation reads the SPURR register in account_system_vtime which
is only call called on context witch and hard and soft irq entry and exit.
The percentage of user and system time is then estimated using the ratio of
these accounted by the PURR.  If the SPURR is not present, the PURR read.

An earlier implementation of this patch read the SPURR whenever the PURR
was read, which included the system call entry and exit path.
Unfortunately this showed a performance regression on lmbench runs, so was
re-implemented.

I've included the lmbench results here when run bare metal on POWER6.  1st
column is the unpatch results.  2nd column is the results using the below
patch and the 3rd is the % diff of these results from the base.  4th and
5th columns are the results and % differnce from the base using the older
patch (SPURR read in syscall entry/exit path).

                              Base        Scaled-Acct     SPURR-in-syscall
                             Result      Result  % diff    Result % diff
Simple syscall:              0.3086      0.3086  0.0000    0.3452 11.8600
Simple read:                 0.4591      0.4671  1.7425    0.5044 9.86713
Simple write:                0.4364      0.4366  0.0458    0.4731 8.40971
Simple stat:                 2.0055      2.0295  1.1967    2.0669 3.06158
Simple fstat:                0.5962      0.5876  -1.442    0.6368 6.80979
Simple open/close:           3.1283      3.1009  -0.875    3.2088 2.57328
Select on 10 fd's:           0.8554      0.8457  -1.133    0.8667 1.32101
Select on 100 fd's:          3.5292      3.6329  2.9383    3.6664 3.88756
Select on 250 fd's:          7.9097      8.1881  3.5197    8.2242 3.97613
Select on 500 fd's:          15.2659     15.836  3.7357    15.873 3.97814
Select on 10 tcp fd's:       0.9576      0.9416  -1.670    0.9752 1.83792
Select on 100 tcp fd's:      7.248       7.2254  -0.311    7.2685 0.28283
Select on 250 tcp fd's:      17.7742     17.707  -0.375    17.749 -0.1406
Select on 500 tcp fd's:      35.4258     35.25   -0.496    35.286 -0.3929
Signal handler installation: 0.6131      0.6075  -0.913    0.647  5.52927
Signal handler overhead:     2.0919      2.1078  0.7600    2.1831 4.35967
Protection fault:            0.7345      0.7478  1.8107    0.8031 9.33968
Pipe latency:                33.006      16.398  -50.31    33.475 1.42368
AF_UNIX sock stream latency: 14.5093     30.910  113.03    30.715 111.692
Process fork+exit:           219.8       222.8   1.3648    229.37 4.35623
Process fork+execve:         876.14      873.28  -0.32     868.66 -0.8533
Process fork+/bin/sh -c:     2830        2876.5  1.6431    2958   4.52296
File /var/tmp/XXX write bw:  1193497     1195536 0.1708    118657 -0.5799
Pagefaults on /var/tmp/XXX:  3.1272      3.2117  2.7020    3.2521 3.99398

Also, kernel compile times show no difference with this patch applied.

[pbadari@us.ibm.com: Avoid unnecessary PURR reading]
Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Jay Lan <jlan@engr.sgi.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18 14:37:28 -07:00
Michael Neuling
f494f8fcb1 add-scaled-time-to-taskstats-based-process-accounting fix
This moves the new items to the end of the taskstats struct as
requested by Balbir and yourself.

Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Jay Lan <jlan@engr.sgi.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18 14:37:28 -07:00
Michael Neuling
c66f08be7e Add scaled time to taskstats based process accounting
This adds items to the taststats struct to account for user and system
time based on scaling the CPU frequency and instruction issue rates.

Adds account_(user|system)_time_scaled callbacks which architectures
can use to account for time using this mechanism.

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Jay Lan <jlan@engr.sgi.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18 14:37:28 -07:00
Joe Perches
898eb71cb1 Add missing newlines to some uses of dev_<level> messages
Found these while looking at printk uses.

Add missing newlines to dev_<level> uses
Add missing KERN_<level> prefixes to multiline dev_<level>s
Fixed a wierd->weird spelling typo
Added a newline to a printk

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Mark M. Hoffman <mhoffman@lightlink.com>
Cc: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
Cc: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Cc: James Smart <James.Smart@Emulex.Com>
Cc: Andrew Vasquez <andrew.vasquez@qlogic.com>
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net>
Cc: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>
Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18 14:37:28 -07:00
Jiri Slaby
6c0286b199 Char: rocket, fix signed/unsigned warning
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18 14:37:27 -07:00
Jiri Slaby
4384a3fae1 Char: rocket, remove potential leak in module_init
if (controller && !request_region) then we leaked a tty driver struct, fix it
by adding function deinit tail with goto-ing into it (and from other fail
paths too)

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18 14:37:27 -07:00
Jiri Slaby
57fedc7ae5 Char: rocket, remove pci_read_config_dword(CLASS_REVISION)
We may use pdev->revision instead of reading pci config space directly, so
remove pci_read_config_dword invoking.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18 14:37:27 -07:00
Jiri Slaby
c148b9d555 Char: rocket, don't re-set statics to 0
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18 14:37:27 -07:00
Jiri Slaby
ac6aec2f56 Char: rocket, fix dynamic_dev tty
- register_device unconditionally (non-pci dependent) to have also isa
  devices in /dev
- unregister devices on module removal
- don't set TTY_DRIVER_DYNAMIC_DEV twice (removed the one dependent on some
  macro)

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Cc: Ferenc Wagner <wferi@niif.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18 14:37:27 -07:00
Jiri Slaby
8cf5a8c572 Char: rocket, switch sleep_on to completion
rocket, switch sleep_on to completion

- sleep_on is deprecated and racy, use completion instead
- also check retval of interruptible function and return ERESTARTSYS
  eventually

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18 14:37:27 -07:00
Jiri Slaby
95e0791480 Char: moxa, remove sleep_on
interruptible_sleep_on is deprecated, use completion instead

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18 14:37:27 -07:00
Jiri Slaby
6f56b658b4 Char: moxa, function names cleanup
prepend moxa_ to all moxa functions which laxes this

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18 14:37:27 -07:00
Jiri Slaby
7aeb95daf3 Char: moxa, cleanup prints
- use dev_* where pdev is available (probe function)
- add some printks on fail paths
- add KERN_ macros otherwise
- remove useless verbose variable
- wrap lines to 80 cols at most

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18 14:37:26 -07:00
Jesper Juhl
d941ea7d49 Cyclades: Avoid label defined but not used warning
CC      drivers/char/cyclades.o
 drivers/char/cyclades.c: In function 'cy_init':
 drivers/char/cyclades.c:5488: warning: label 'err_unr' defined but not used

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18 14:37:26 -07:00
Jiri Slaby
65f76a82ec Char: cyclades, fix some -W warnings
Most of them are signedness, the rest unused function parameters.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18 14:37:26 -07:00
Jiri Slaby
1c0a387c1f Char: cyclades, move spin_lock to one place
Lock whole processing in isr, avoid error-prone locking/unlocking in rx/tx
esp.  On fail paths (there was a bug in the past yet).

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18 14:37:26 -07:00
Jiri Slaby
ce97a09767 Char: cyclades, make the isr code readable
Due to large indent the code was wrapped and unreadable.  Create 3 function
instead of one and reorder the code, so it is readable now.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18 14:37:26 -07:00
Jiri Slaby
ebafeeff0f Char: cyclades, remove bottom half processing
The work done in bottom half doesn't cost much cpu time (e.g.  tty_hangup
itself schedules its own bottom half), it's possible to do the work in isr
directly and save hence some .text.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18 14:37:26 -07:00
Jiri Slaby
c43422053b Char: moxa, fix and optimise empty timer
moxa, fix and optimise empty timer

don't wait and delete empty timer in empty timer function. Also fire next
empty timer at rounded jiffies to save power.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18 14:37:26 -07:00
Adrian Bunk
fc37449f79 The next round of scheduled OSS code removal
This patch contains the next round of scheduled OSS code removal.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18 14:37:26 -07:00
Daniel Walker
5b4db0c2f2 whitespace fixes: system timers
Signed-off-by: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18 14:37:26 -07:00
Daniel Walker
0719e3702e whitespace fixes: interval timers
Signed-off-by: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18 14:37:26 -07:00
Daniel Walker
62769dce86 whitespace fixes: execution domains
Signed-off-by: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18 14:37:26 -07:00
Daniel Walker
5600b89278 whitespace fixes: system auditing
Just removing white space at the end of lines.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18 14:37:25 -07:00
Daniel Walker
bd3a8492ba whitespace fixes: compat syscalls
Signed-off-by: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18 14:37:25 -07:00
Daniel Walker
9f8dbe9c9c whitespace fixes: syscall auditing
Signed-off-by: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18 14:37:25 -07:00
Daniel Walker
314f70fd96 whitespace fixes: capability syscalls
Large chunks of 5 spaces instead of tabs.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18 14:37:25 -07:00
Daniel Walker
c277e63fbe whitespace fixes: panic handling
Signed-off-by: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18 14:37:25 -07:00
Daniel Walker
22a8bdeb53 whitespace fixes: module loading
Signed-off-by: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18 14:37:25 -07:00
Daniel Walker
23ff444024 whitespace fixes: fork
Signed-off-by: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18 14:37:25 -07:00
Daniel Walker
902749cdbd whitespace fixes: DMA channel allocator
Signed-off-by: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18 14:37:24 -07:00
Daniel Walker
9ce34218a8 whitespace fixes: audit filtering
Signed-off-by: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18 14:37:24 -07:00
Daniel Walker
1bfbc608ba whitespace fixes: relayfs
Signed-off-by: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18 14:37:24 -07:00
Daniel Walker
dedf8b79ec whitespace fixes: cpuset
Signed-off-by: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>
Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18 14:37:24 -07:00
Daniel Walker
6ae965cd64 whitespace fixes: process accounting
Lots of converting spaces to tabs.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18 14:37:24 -07:00
Daniel Walker
6fa6c3b1d1 whitespace fixes: time syscalls
Signed-off-by: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18 14:37:24 -07:00
Jesper Juhl
b8cc554935 mxser: fix compiler warning when building without CONFIG_PCI
drivers/char/mxser.c:386: warning: 'mxser_get_PCI_conf' declared 'static' but never defined

when building without CONFIG_PCI.

[jesper.juhl@gmail.com: Fix warning: 'CheckIsMoxaMust' defined but not used]
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18 14:37:24 -07:00
Alan Cox
0678c5b679 mxser: remove commented crap
This is years dead code and it keeps turning up in confusing ways when
grepping for stuff.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18 14:37:24 -07:00
Jiri Slaby
009ae1dbd5 Char: mxser_new, remove useless comments in mxser_cards
mxser_new, remove useless comments in mxser_cards

It was rest from times, where info about the card was separated (name,
ports number and flags).

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18 14:37:24 -07:00
Jiri Slaby
931ecbbe9d Char: mxser_new, move to PCI_VDEVICE
mxser_new, move to PCI_VDEVICE

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18 14:37:24 -07:00
Jiri Slaby
f8cce2e5c8 Char: mxser_new, upgrade to 1.10
mxser_new, upgrade to 1.10

This adds support for new (5 cards) hardware.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18 14:37:24 -07:00
Andrew Morgan
72c2d5823f V3 file capabilities: alter behavior of cap_setpcap
The non-filesystem capability meaning of CAP_SETPCAP is that a process, p1,
can change the capabilities of another process, p2.  This is not the
meaning that was intended for this capability at all, and this
implementation came about purely because, without filesystem capabilities,
there was no way to use capabilities without one process bestowing them on
another.

Since we now have a filesystem support for capabilities we can fix the
implementation of CAP_SETPCAP.

The most significant thing about this change is that, with it in effect, no
process can set the capabilities of another process.

The capabilities of a program are set via the capability convolution
rules:

   pI(post-exec) = pI(pre-exec)
   pP(post-exec) = (X(aka cap_bset) & fP) | (pI(post-exec) & fI)
   pE(post-exec) = fE ? pP(post-exec) : 0

at exec() time.  As such, the only influence the pre-exec() program can
have on the post-exec() program's capabilities are through the pI
capability set.

The correct implementation for CAP_SETPCAP (and that enabled by this patch)
is that it can be used to add extra pI capabilities to the current process
- to be picked up by subsequent exec()s when the above convolution rules
are applied.

Here is how it works:

Let's say we have a process, p. It has capability sets, pE, pP and pI.
Generally, p, can change the value of its own pI to pI' where

   (pI' & ~pI) & ~pP = 0.

That is, the only new things in pI' that were not present in pI need to
be present in pP.

The role of CAP_SETPCAP is basically to permit changes to pI beyond
the above:

   if (pE & CAP_SETPCAP) {
      pI' = anything; /* ie., even (pI' & ~pI) & ~pP != 0  */
   }

This capability is useful for things like login, which (say, via
pam_cap) might want to raise certain inheritable capabilities for use
by the children of the logged-in user's shell, but those capabilities
are not useful to or needed by the login program itself.

One such use might be to limit who can run ping. You set the
capabilities of the 'ping' program to be "= cap_net_raw+i", and then
only shells that have (pI & CAP_NET_RAW) will be able to run
it. Without CAP_SETPCAP implemented as described above, login(pam_cap)
would have to also have (pP & CAP_NET_RAW) in order to raise this
capability and pass it on through the inheritable set.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morgan <morgan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18 14:37:24 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman
7058cb02dd sysctl: deprecate sys_sysctl in a user space visible fashion.
After adding checking to register_sysctl_table and finding a whole new set
of bugs.  Missed by countless code reviews and testers I have finally lost
patience with the binary sysctl interface.

The binary sysctl interface has been sort of deprecated for years and
finding a user space program that uses the syscall is more difficult then
finding a needle in a haystack.  Problems continue to crop up, with the in
kernel implementation.  So since supporting something that no one uses is
silly, deprecate sys_sysctl with a sufficient grace period and notice that
the handful of user space applications that care can be fixed or replaced.

The /proc/sys sysctl interface that people use will continue to be
supported indefinitely.

This patch moves the tested warning about sysctls from the path where
sys_sysctl to a separate path called from both implementations of
sys_sysctl, and it adds a proper entry into
Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.

Allowing us to revisit this in a couple years time and actually kill
sys_sysctl.

[lethal@linux-sh.org: sysctl: Fix syscall disabled build]
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18 14:37:23 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman
8ada720d89 sysctl: for irda update sysctl_checks list of binary paths
It turns out that the net/irda code didn't register any of it's binary paths
in the global sysctl.h header file so I missed them completely when making an
authoritative list of binary sysctl paths in the kernel.  So add them to the
list of valid binary sysctl paths.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: Samuel Ortiz <samuel@sortiz.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18 14:37:23 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman
49ffcf8f99 sysctl: update sysctl_check_table
Well it turns out after I dug into the problems a little more I was returning
a few false positives so this patch updates my logic to remove them.

- Don't complain about 0 ctl_names in sysctl_check_binary_path
  It is valid for someone to remove the sysctl binary interface
  and still keep the same sysctl proc interface.

- Count ctl_names and procnames as matching if they both don't
  exist.

- Only warn about missing min&max when the generic functions care.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18 14:37:23 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman
fc6cd25b73 sysctl: Error on bad sysctl tables
After going through the kernels sysctl tables several times it has become
clear that code review and testing is just not effective in prevent
problematic sysctl tables from being used in the stable kernel.  I certainly
can't seem to fix the problems as fast as they are introduced.

Therefore this patch adds sysctl_check_table which is called when a sysctl
table is registered and checks to see if we have a problematic sysctl table.

The biggest part of the code is the table of valid binary sysctl entries, but
since we have frozen our set of binary sysctls this table should not need to
change, and it makes it much easier to detect when someone unintentionally
adds a new binary sysctl value.

As best as I can determine all of the several hundred errors spewed on boot up
now are legitimate.

[bunk@kernel.org: kernel/sysctl_check.c must #include <linux/string.h>]
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18 14:37:23 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman
f429cd37a2 sysctl: properly register the irda binary sysctl numbers
Grumble.  These numbers should have been in sysctl.h from the beginning if we
ever expected anyone to use them.  Oh well put them there now so we can find
them and make maintenance easier.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: Samuel Ortiz <samuel@sortiz.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18 14:37:23 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman
c65f92398e sysctl: remove the cad_pid binary sysctl path
It looks like we inadvertently killed the cad_pid binary sysctl support when
cap_pid was changed to be a struct pid.  Since no one has complained just
remove the binary path.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18 14:37:23 -07:00